Fixing Medicare

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/21/opinion/fixing-medicare.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

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From: barry levine 
Date: Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:36 AM
Subject: re: Fixing Medicare
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

   Dr. Patrick Dowling diagnosed our problem two years ago on these pages: "the more tubes you put in, the more you get paid".  Americans today pay more for healthcare than anyone ever since the invention of money, and the costs are only increasing. If the current trend continues it will devour our entire economy within the foreseeable future.  This is not a problem that more competition will fix. We need a new paradigm, paying for health, not for treatment.

Barry Haskell Levine